Vol. 11, Special Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
JK Jadav, CK Timbadia, AP Chaudhary and KL Chaudhary

Abstract:
India is the home to large number of indigenous people, who are still untouched by the lifestyle of the modern world. In India tribal constitute 8.61 per cent of the total population of the country, numbering 104.28 million and cover about 15 per cent of the country’s area. These were also known as the Adivasi's in the country, which are still dependent on haunting, agriculture and fishing.The majority of beneficial tribal farmers belonged to medium to low level of knowledge regarding towards different recommended practices of paddy crop. Majority of beneficial tribal farmers had correct knowledge regarding recommended variety, followed by recommended stage of crop for harvesting, recommended pesticide for rice gundhi bug and recommended spacing in main field.